Plow {There once was a man who built a house upon a pile of rocks and when the crowds came around to ridicule him he smiled and said "Look closer, and see I have built upon every rock its own house, for each part contains within it the whole in some magnitude."}

from Early Spring part 2: Visions of The Bug Princess by Pure Mothman

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{What are you doing?
I'm in command of this ship now}

{My dad was sweepin' floors in a nitroglycerin plant during the war}

{Not from the Bible! The Bible says that Christ suffered once!}

In the third wave we called them heat-slugs. They left behind a thin trail of magma-like ooze. As it cooled to earth temperatures it biodegraded into something unspeakable. Then came the spire. Then worms. Then we woke up with new tools we had no idea how to utilize.

{It doesn't have to exist if I shut my eyes. If I shut my eyes it all disappears. If I wish hard enough I can wish it all away.}

{Light is a force unto itself. It is a positive force.}

Is anyone happy? Look around you. What's everyone doing. I'm not proud of what I did. But I don't regret it. Not for an instant. What was lost was necessary for the progression of what was written. The cut worm forgives the plow. What else is there to do?

(And I love my Lord Jesus above anything)

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from Early Spring part 2: Visions of The Bug Princess, released April 14, 2021

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